Sarah and I had a bit of a chat about my reflections on what worked and what could have been better on my ARP:

As I mentioned in my conversation with Sarah, one of the things that comes next is the Changemaker project in the Digital Learning team at CSM. The hope is that the changemaker will be able to help with further testing and listening to students in order to inform the development of a Moodle template at CSM, to be piloted next year.

Referring to O’Leary’s cycles of research as shown in the diagram above, our previous development of Moodle is the ‘Act’ stage in the first cycle, my action research project is part of the ‘Observe’ and ‘Reflect’ stages in the second cycle and the next stage is to Plan and Act again. This will comprise of our work with the changemaker and within the team to devise the CSM Moodle template(s) and the further testing of them, and eventual implementation. This cycle will continue however, as each stage in the cycle builds on knowledge gained in previous cycles and implementation will involve further evaluation and development as the design becomes more complex.

Bibliography:

Koshi E., Koshi V. and Waterman H. (2011) Action research in healthcare SAGE publications Ltd, London​